The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31
sRAp1sH's TEN STRIKE.
|s7is MiIlion-Dollar Invention Spoiled
by Great Greedy Fish.
From the Chicago Tribune.


Il by Great Greedy Fish.
u From the Chicago Tribune
II Old Ike Bradish was an inveterate fisher
man. and if he had any scientific education
&Vould have been an inventor and made his
knark-though for that matter he always
&,,ade his mark anyhow. And while sitting
IL his boat, watching the sportive bob and
silently munching his favorite brand of
8 limo tobacco his busy brain teemed with
Enterprises of gigantic proportions. He had
Il I,vays had it in mind to aStonish the world
Nth some wonderful production of his
penius. for which his unalterable price was to
f. Il DOC, coo. For a time he had endeavored
fo interest Mrs Bradish in these plans, but
HAT matter-of-fact woman was somewhat
seceptical Of her husbands abilities, and
Would usually respond to his glowing prog
posticationS with more or less pointed refer
8ence to splitting wood or other humiliating
Chores about the house.
81 Old Ike had attended philosophical lee
4 hire somewhere, at which the professor had
held no a glass tube filled with water with
s bis thumb over the top. So long as the
Hfhumb was kept in place the water re-
manned in the tube, though the lower end of
'ztbe tube was open Upon this principle old
Ike had endeagored to perfect a pump
which would raise its own water, and de
voted weeks to its perfection. At last it
z.vas all complete; the column of water was
zs,erained in the pipe, and the old fellows
heart beat a regular gallop as he turned the
faucet in anticipation of a constantly flow
INC well. But. instead of the water rush
Ina out of the faucet, the air rushed in, and
s'the inventors hopes sank with the water
Unto the wash-tup.
II turbine water wheel that was to be
#driven by the water it pumped proved an
|&other miserable failure, and for nearly a
wear the old man was in the dumps.
M At last, however, he struck his gait. He
HAD observed that the sports who came to
Efsh demulred at the cost of boat-hire. and
Inc reasoned that nobody could enjoy days
ffshing when they were all the time re-
minded that the boat was costing 25c. an
hour, while hour after hour sped by and they
Hs'never caught clam" Old Ike set the
#machinerv of his fertile brain to work, and
fat last struck it. Observing the greatest
fsecrecy in all his movements, lest some
Hsharper should get the idea and secure a
Xpatent ahead of him, he set to work. Days
INVENT by and all else was neglected. Mrs
Bradish fairly stormed at the way 'the old
$coot was allowin' things to go to rack and
#iuin," but it didn't bulge the old man; he
Il stuck to his little shop.
81 At length one day the old man issued
drought forth a pair of extension stills!
81 with these under one arm and a long sit
81 ting pole and fishing rod i'll hand he took his
q way to the sloping banks of the lake. Fast
a ening on the stills he began wading out. AS
the water increased in depth and came nearer
his feet he would lean upon the pole and put
in another extension. Tine stills were made
30 feet high, and when nearly mile from
shore Old Ike took up a position, wet his
lips from bottle of cold tea, took a fresh
chew, spit on his bait, and cast in For
fifteen minutes he laughed as though his
heart would break, not caring a copper
whether he ever caught fish OF not. The
thing was a success, and he needn't ever do
another days work.
But at tnat moment he got a bite And
it seemed as though it must be whale. He
was drawn forward by the struggle of the
fish and the sitting pole fell from under
4 him.
Luckily some boys in a small boat, at
tracted by tie strange spectacle of a man
4 sitting serenely fishing in 30 feet of water,
4 nearly mile from shore, were bearing down
. on the spot, and happily were just in time.
They seized hold of the two long extension
legs that has been gyrating in the air for
/ some moments, and at last found Old Ike at
/ theend of them. He was not dead, but decid-
edly discouraged.